A greene forest, or A naturall historie vvherein may bee seene first the most sufferaigne vertues in all the whole kinde of stones & mettals: next of plants, as of herbes, trees, [and] shrubs, lastly of brute beastes, foules, fishes, creeping wormes [and] serpents, and that alphabetically: so that a table shall not neede. Compiled by Iohn Maplet, M. of Arte, and student in Cambridge: entending hereby yt God might especially be glorified: and the people furdered. Anno 1567.

Of Onix or Onichus.

ONix of some Onichus, is a stone of Indie and Arabie, hauing colours all aboute it intermedled verie like to a mans naile: wher∣vpō the Greekes call our naile Onikin. That of Indie hath a colour like to fire, & is dyed with white Uaines or Zones. That of Arabie is black, yet died with white Lines or Zones. It hath many kindes as Sardonix, so called for that by cōmixture of the Onix which is white and Sardus which is red, it becōmeth but one of them both. It being borne about one, rid∣deth him of feare: and in maner of a Glasse it sheweth a mans visage, as saith Diascorides.